I am orphaning my blog again Laziness rules again. I want to remember myself about everything I saw, but too often the empty white space seems to frighten me.
In the fall I will be visiting Croatia. Some say it is a lovely country, but I know next to nothing about it. I am trying to get acquainted with the basics of the language and I try to see which films are easily available. Hear people from former Yugoslavia: There may not be many people outside your own community, but please provide subtitles when you put your culture on DVD.
Armin runs only 82 minutes. It seems as if mr. Sviličić ran too early out of ideas. The story has potential, but the focus here is on the father and son relationship.
Ibro lives with his son Armin in a village in Bosnia. Armin is invited to an audition in Croatia. The way to Croatia is long and difficult and the audition does not go very well. Ibro seems to see this as an opportunity to open the doors to the west. His son is more reluctant. Ibro has relatives in Zagreb (how did they get there, why don't they relate to each other more often?) In the end the film team wants to "buy" Armin's story, but Ibro refuses. Theyare not selling out their private lives.
Although there is a lot of interesting in this film, it does not tell the things I really would like to know. Probaly we are supposed to laugh about Ibro's clumsy efforts to manage his son's career. But maybe the local viewers have the cultural the cultural competence to decode what I would like to know. Therefore only 5/10.
In the fall I will be visiting Croatia. Some say it is a lovely country, but I know next to nothing about it. I am trying to get acquainted with the basics of the language and I try to see which films are easily available. Hear people from former Yugoslavia: There may not be many people outside your own community, but please provide subtitles when you put your culture on DVD.
Armin runs only 82 minutes. It seems as if mr. Sviličić ran too early out of ideas. The story has potential, but the focus here is on the father and son relationship.
Ibro lives with his son Armin in a village in Bosnia. Armin is invited to an audition in Croatia. The way to Croatia is long and difficult and the audition does not go very well. Ibro seems to see this as an opportunity to open the doors to the west. His son is more reluctant. Ibro has relatives in Zagreb (how did they get there, why don't they relate to each other more often?) In the end the film team wants to "buy" Armin's story, but Ibro refuses. Theyare not selling out their private lives.
Although there is a lot of interesting in this film, it does not tell the things I really would like to know. Probaly we are supposed to laugh about Ibro's clumsy efforts to manage his son's career. But maybe the local viewers have the cultural the cultural competence to decode what I would like to know. Therefore only 5/10.
